art and culture
June 15, 2021 – 4:16 pm
A reopening ceremony and presentation of the new management of the museum spaces in collaboration with Opera Laboratori
of Corriere Fiorentino editorial staff
The June 17122 days after the closure imposed by the health emergency, the following will be accessible to the public again: the Jewish Temple, a highly refined architecture, and the adjoining museum; places of great importance for the city of which they are an integral part. Entirely new, the promotion and enhancement project that sees Opera Laboratori, one of the most important national entrepreneurial realities active in the cultural sector, alongside the Jewish Community of Florence in the management of Synagogue he was born in Jewish Museum of the Tuscan capital and the Synagogue of Siena. The agreement, which has just been signed, renews Opera Laboratori’s commitment to its mission to promote the art and culture of important museum institutions, which over the last twenty years it has managed to manage in the national territory.
The intent is to enhance the cultural heritage of the Jewish Community of Florence and of the Siena section, kept in the synagogues and museum collections of the two Tuscan sites; a very rich heritage of Jewish ceremonial art, archival documents and book collections.
Many innovations introduced by Opera Laboratori in this new collaboration: the integrated IT platform for reservations and pre-sales, which will be accessible from the official website of the Jewish Community and from a dedicated call center. The entrance, from Sunday to Thursday from 10 am to 6.30 pm and on Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, will also be facilitated by the possibility of accessing the museum itinerary with an electronic ticket on your smartphone. The new website of the Synagogue and the Museum will also be created, as well as new paper guides that will allow you to complete the visiting experience.
On the same day of Thursday 17, from 17 to 19, it will be possible to participate, by reservation only (by writing to firenzebraica@operalaboratori.com), in the event “The wonders of rebirth”. An articulated path that includes an emotional and unique passage in the Immersive Room: a new museum exhibition that will lead the public to be the protagonist of a journey through history, to discover the Jewish Temple of Florence. The story told by the main characters who have animated the life of the Florentine Jewish Community from 800 to today: the knight David Levi, architect Marco Treves and the rabbi Samuel Margulies. Life-size figures that will come alive to narrate the memory of the place and dialogue with each other and with visitors. The project was carried out thanks to the fundamental contribution of the CR Firenze Foundation in the context of “Cultural Laboratories”, the thematic announcement that the Foundation dedicates to digital innovation and to new museum users.
Afterwards, the visit will offer a preview of the presentation of two new paintings that enrich the museum itinerary: Mos with the Tables of the Law of 1630 by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as il Guercino (Cento 1591 – Bologna 1666). A work from the collection of the Jewish Women of Italy Association (ADEI WIZO) and the Portrait of Lucia Levi in Levi (1960), the work of the painter Gino Rossi (Venice 1884 – Treviso 1947), one of the greatest Italian artists of the twentieth century , the result of a donation made to the Jewish Community of Florence by Mrs. Grazia Levi; the painting portrays the grandmother deported from Florence to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944.
June 15, 2021 | 16:16
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